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Previous fracture is a well-documented risk factor for future fracture. The aim of this study was to quantify this risk on an international basis and to explore the relationship of this risk with age, sex, and bone mineral density (BMD). We studied 15259 men and 44902 women from 11 cohorts comprising EVOS/EPOS, OFELY, CaMos, Rochester, Sheffield, Rotterdam, Kuopio, DOES, Hiroshima, and two cohorts...
A case-control study of hip fracture among the Japanese elderly was carried out in order to assess the risk factors for fractures. On the data obtained from 249 cases and 498 controls matched with ethnicity, sex, age, and residential area, significant risk factors on the lifestyle by multivariate analyses included drinking more than three cups of coffee daily, living in rural areas in the past, sleep...
Age-adjusted prevalence of vertebral fracture has been reported to be higher among native Japanese women than among women of Japanese descent living in Hawaii. In this cross-sectional population-based study, we examined a variety of potential risk factors for associations with prevalent vertebral fractures and investigated whether these factors could explain the difference in vertebral fracture prevalence...
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